"We've arrived. Let's get to that new world!" Luigi said. Sora poked his head up top, slightly grateful not to hear another earful from Tippi about the how to run the Starshroom, although he had to admit it was a little interesting to learn how to shoot the Heartless.

"So what's this world going to be like?" Sora asked them.

"We don't know. With any luck, they won't try to kill us," Bowser said.

"Don't worry Bowser, I doubt we'll have much to worry about," Peach said. "So long as you don't fall into your old habits, we'll be fine."

"Oh, Sora," Tippi said, "before we go down to this world, you should know that most worlds don't know of the existence of other worlds, you can interact, but if you reveal that other worlds are out there, we might get into big trouble. If there's an easy lie to make yourself seem like a resident of the world, don't hesitate to take advantage of it."

"Oh, okay," Sora said. With that they landed the Starshroom in the outskirts of the grassy plain. The land around them was large and wide, in their view was a beautiful white castle surrounded by guards.

"I say we go in there!" Bowser suggested. "There's bound to be a princess with information."

"Old habits die hard," Luigi said with a laugh. Peach joined in a second later while Sora watched them in confusion.

"Actually, Bowser might be onto something," Tippi said. "Both of the missing people you three know are princesses, if a princess does live in the castle, which my scan tells me there is, it's possible our kidnapper might be targeting this princess as well."

"So we get to break in to talk to a princess!" Bowser gained a shock look on his face.

"Should be fun," Sora said. "How do we do it?"

"We should be stealthy," Luigi said. "Can anyone turn invisible?"

"No…" Sora shook his head.

"Then we do this my way," Bowser said. He laughed before firing a fireball at the castle wall. The wall broke, but interestingly enough, none of the guards seemed to deviate from their route to investigate the disturbance. "I guess castles everywhere have this bad a security!"

"Glad to know mine isn't the only bad one," Peach sighed before entering the wall. "I feel horrible about this…"

"Cheer up Peach; it's only this one time!" Sora said to her. He pushed open the door in front of them to see a young girl wearing a purple dress. She had blonde hair falling down to her shoulders and pointy ears.

"How did you four get in?" The girl asked. "Wouldn't the guards keep you out."

"Princess, your security is no match for Bowser!" Bowser laughed.

"Link said it was hard to get passed them," the girl said. "Are you four friends of him? I've never seen a turtle like you before, but the brown haired boy has a fairy like the Kokiri and the other two could be Hylian."

"That's right, I'm Peach, and these are Sora and Tippi, Luigi, and Bowser," Peach indicated each of them. "Bowser's a special…erm…turtle."

"My name's Princess Zelda," Zelda said. "How come you're here?"

"If you don't mind princess, we have a few questions. A few princesses my friends are friends with were recently kidnapped. We were hoping you might have a suspect or two that we could investigate," Tippi said.

"Please, call me Zelda, but there is one guy…" Zelda pointed out the window at a dark skinned man in the throne room. "His name's Ganondorf, and I think he wants to hurt Hyrule somehow. I already sent a new friend of mine named Link to help out, but if we can prevent him from gaining the Triforce we should be able to stop him from leaving the world and taking any more princesses."

"Link?" Sora asked.

"He's a Kokiri like you, except his fairy is different from Tippi. He's collecting the three Spiritual Stones for me so Ganondorf can't get them. If you can bring him here when he's done, then we wouldn't have to worry anymore," Zelda said. "Maybe you guys can go get him for me."

"What does he look like?" Luigi asked.

"He wears a green tunic and has blond hair and pointy ears and blue eyes," Zelda said. "He's also really young!"

"Alright Zelda, we'll come back soon," Sora said and they exited out the same hole of entry Bowser had created. The moment they left the room, Heartless began their swarm. Most of them were the helmeted and large variety from Traverse Town, but a few were skeleton creatures with the thorny heart on the shields they carried.

"Tippi! Scan!" Sora said.

"The helmeted kind are the Soldier Heartless. They're not very strong and go down in a few hits. They attack primarily through kicks. The round ones are the Large Body Heartless. The can only be attacked from behind and their body slam attack can pack quite a punch, so be careful. The final kind are Stalfos, a Heartless skeleton breed created by Ganondorf. They can attack using their swords and defend using their shields; however they're no smarter than most Heartless, so go nuts."

"Skeletons, I've never seen one that can hold up to my flames." Bowser sent a fireball after one of the Stalfos and it turned to ash within seconds of being exposed to the fire.

"Alright, Luigi, you and Bowser take out the Stalfos since you both can use fire. Sora and I will fight the Soldiers and Large Bodies," Peach said. She pulled out her parasol and began swiftly slicing through the Heartless, each swipe with her parasol slicing through the Heartless with enormous strength as the hearts floated up and out. Sora followed her example until they ended up in front of a Large Body. Peach ducked under her parasol the moment it went to jump on top of her while Sora rolled out of the way and ended up behind it. He stabbed at Heartless, which turned its attention to him and allowed Peach to get a slice at its back. Sora jumped above the Heartless and slashed at its head, thus taking it down as a heart was released. They turned around to see Luigi and Bowser burn the last Stalfos to ash.

"Hey, how tough is that parasol?" Sora asked.

"Honestly, as curious as I am, that's not a question I want to test. Toadsworth bought it for me to commemorate my one hundredth kidnapping and it works," Peach said.

"Come on, let's go look for Link," Luigi said after walking up to the duo. "The less time we waste here, the better."

"Agreed," Sora said.

-x-

It wasn't long after they left the castle that they ran into the boy. He had to be Link, because who else would be traveling with a fairy and wearing green.

"I'm sorry Link, if I had known you would have had to go inside that thing I would have warned you," the blue fairy by the boy's head said.

"At least I got the Zora Sapphire…even if it means I'm now engaged to Ruto…" Link said.

"Excuse me, Link," Sora walked up to him. Link looked at Sora in confusion. "That is you, right?"

"Yeah, I'm Link, and this is my fairy, Navi," he indicated the blue ball.

"Nice to meet you. I'm Sora and these are my friends, Peach, Luigi, Bowser, and Tippi," Sora said. " Zelda sent us to bring you to her when you had the three…I think she called them Spiritual Stones…"

"Zelda sent you?" Link's eyes lit up with surprise.

"She did, come on, we aren't that far from the castle so we should be able to reach her in no time and-"

"Link!" Zelda shouted as she was carried on a horse past the heroes by the man she called Ganondorf.

"Oh no! Zelda!" Link went to run after her and the horse stopped.

"You're her Kokiri boy, aren't you?" Ganondorf sneered. "Well no need to worry, I'm not after the Tri-force yet. I need to deliver the princess here to my employer."

"Let her go!" Sora ran forward and summoned his Keyblade, closely followed by Peach, Luigi and Bowser behind him. Link even pulled out his little sword from his pocket.

"You want a fight that badly then, fine," Ganondorf waved his hand and a large spider Heartless appeared. "Have fun fighting him."

"Tippi/Navi," both Link and Sora said at the same time.

"That's a Golden Skulltulla Heartless. It's a giant bug, and often attacks by tackling its opponent and summoning weaker Skulltullas to do its bidding," both fairy and Pixl provided the information at the same time, causing the heroes to look at each other before grinning.

"Let's do this!" Sora said and started slashing at the legs of the giant spider. His Keyblade's strikes did about as much damage as Link's Kokiri sword did. It fired a spider web at Link, which he raised his shield to block before stabbing upwards at the stomach, which seemed to do more damage. Sora followed his idea and pushed his Keyblade upward into the golden bug's stomach. The others appeared to catch on as Bowser began scratching at it with his claws from underneath along with Peach's parasol stabbing underneath and Luigi's uppercut packing a powerful punch. Little spiders began forming at its feet, distracting them from the larger one.

"We'll keep the little ones busy, you and Link focus on the big one!" Luigi shouted as he sent a green flame at the small bugs on the ground. Peach's parasol effortlessly cut through the small bugs, cutting each one in half and releasing small hearts with each hit. Bowser's flames would burn a dozen for each Heartless his fire breath hit. Sora and Link continued to slice at the stomach of the Heartless. Eventually they were forced out from underneath it as it ran out from under and lowered down to charge at the two heroes, knocking them backwards.

Sora raised his Keyblade and threw it at the Heartless, knocking out four of its legs and causing it to fall over. He ran and climbed on top of the spider, and while Link continually stabbed at its back from below, Sora stabbed his Keyblade into its stomach right above the thorny heart lying on it. The Heartless gave one final shudder before rolling on its back and releasing a giant pink heart.

"Good job!" Luigi gave a thumbs up to Sora.

"Thanks," Sora said and then frowned when he noticed Link looking around in confusion.

"Ganondorf took Zelda…" Link muttered, "but not the Ocarina of Time…why?"

"Probably the same reason our princesses went missing," Peach said. "We actually came from another country that's princesses went missing."

"So we'll just go after him and save Zelda," Sora said and smiled. "Where would Ganondorf take Zelda, do you have any idea…"

"The Gerudo Realm, except that would be..." Link trailed off.

"What's wrong Link?" Navi asked.

"What if he purposely left Castle Town to mislead us…he might have gone to the Temple of Time," Link said.

"Well we go there and demand he return Princess Zelda then!" Bowser said. "Then we find out why he took her and kick his butt."

"I'm game," Luigi said.

"So am I," Sora said.

"I have to admit, it does sound like a good plan…which is surprising coming from Bowser," Tippi said.

"Then what are we waiting for, let's go save Zelda!" Link lead the way back to Castle Town.

-x-

"Are you sure you need the girl?" Ganondorf asked.

"The Count says yes, besides, you get the music thingy, lay it outside and the hero will play it so you can get your item," the girl said with a smile.

"Hey! Let Zelda go!" Link ran into the temple. His eyes locked on the girl holding Zelda's now unconscious bodies.

"Sorry, no can do, but your second princess…" the girl smiled. "We'll need her too!" The girl teleported away as Link went to attack her. His sword met empty air.

"Second princess?" Peach echoed in confusion. "Does she mean…me?"

"We'll worry about what she meant after we take out Ganondorf!" Sora summoned his Keyblade.

"You honestly think you'll win?" Ganondorf laughed. "You fools have no idea how powerful I am." He raised his arm and fired a magical spell at Sora, who rolled out of the way as quickly as possible. He ran in with his Keyblade raised to prevent the magic spells from hitting him before slashing down with his Keyblade. Ganondorf turned his attention from Sora to Link and began firing spells at the Kokiri boy. Within minutes, the wooden shield he was using to protect himself was destroyed.

"Look out!" Peach jumped in front of Link and ducked under her parasol to avoid the attack. It did no damage to her and prevented the majority from hitting Link. Using her parasol, she slashed at him once more before pulling out a golf club and hitting him in the face with it. He backed away from her and into Bowser's stream of fire. Without much of a choice, Ganondorf charged up his arm with a dark energy and punched Peach in the face, knocking her backwards and into a wall, out cold.

"Peach!" Sora shouted.

"Sora, look out!" Tippi warned him to roll out of the way of a punch just in time, or else he would have ended up unconscious like Peach.

"Why didn't you say he could do that?" Luigi asked.

"All I scanned was that he can use magic, which considering his opening move was a pretty useless warning," Tippi said with a sigh. Link pulled out a bomb from his bag and threw it at Ganondorf, causing it to explode in his face. Thinking the fire came from Bowser, he started to turn his attacks to the turtle, returning to his former magic strategy. Link started pelting him with small seeds from his slingshot, but it seemed to deal no damage as Ganondorf didn't seem to notice.

"Link! You have to get the Master Sword!" He looked behind him to see Zelda toss him a blue ocarina.

"Zelda? How?" Link asked.

"Link, right now we could use that Master Sword if it will help us beat this guy! We'll hold him off!" Sora shouted and slashed at Ganondorf once again before rolling out of the way of another darkness infused punch.

"Right!" Link pulled out three gems, one blue, one red, and one green and put them all on the platform one at a time. He pulled out the ocarina before playing a song on it, causing a panel in the back of the temple to open revealing a sword on the podium. Link ran to it while Luigi punched Ganondorf in the face. He was hit by a spell not moments later, preventing him from guarding Link's way. Ganondorf ignored both Sora and Bowser as he made his way behind Link, the moment the boy pulled out the Master Sword; the two vanished.

"Link?" Sora asked as he looked for the blond boy and his fairy.

"Golly, you guys really are idiots. The Count has nothing to worry about!" "Zelda" laughed as she transformed into the green skinned girl.

"Count? What are you talking about?" Tippi asked.

"You'll find out soon enough," the girl said and vanished.

"Hey, Peach, wake up!" Bowser roared and Peach sat up moments later with confusion on her face at the missing Link and Ganondorf.

"Where did they go?" Peach asked.

"We don't know," Sora said.

"Did you find out what that girl meant by they were coming after me?" Peach asked.

"No, Sorry Princess," Luigi said.

"That count person she mentioned…" Tippi sighed. "Maybe Mario didn't leave to find the Ansem reports, but instead left find him…"

"We'll have to ask about him when we meet with Leon and the others if they've heard of a count," Sora said. A black keyhole appeared in the air above the three stones, much to the confusion of the others.

"What's that?" Luigi asked.

"Well, it is a keyhole and Sora does wield a Keyblade, so maybe he can lock it," Tippi said. Sora nodded.

"I'll give it a shot," he said. He summoned his Keyblade to his hand and pointed to it at the keyhole, a flash of light went from his Keyblade into it and a click sounded. "I guess that's it…"

"Then we should keep moving, we still have a few more worlds within range of the Starshroom to check out," Luigi said. "This time Sora, you'll be manning the guns, Tippi taught you how to do that, right?"

"Yeah, she did," Sora said.

"Good, Peach, do you want to sit out this time?" Luigi asked.

"I wouldn't mind a bit of time to rest," she said and nodded.

"Great, let's head off to the next world!"